🔨 CodeForge - Low-Code Next.js App Builder

A comprehensive visual low-code platform for generating production-ready Next.js applications with Material UI, Prisma, Flask backends, and comprehensive testing suites. Built with AI-powered code generation at its core.

✨ Features

🎯 Core Capabilities

• Project Dashboard - At-a-glance overview of project status, completion metrics, and quick tips
• Monaco Code Editor - Full-featured IDE with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and multi-file editing
• Prisma Schema Designer - Visual database model builder with relations and field configuration
• Component Tree Builder - Hierarchical React component designer with Material UI integration
• Theme Designer - Advanced theming with multiple variants (light/dark/custom) and unlimited custom colors
• Sass Styling System - Custom Material UI components with Sass, including utilities, mixins, and animations
• Flask Backend Designer - Python REST API designer with blueprints, endpoints, and CORS configuration
• Project Settings - Configure Next.js options, npm packages, scripts, and build settings
• Keyboard Shortcuts - Power-user shortcuts for rapid navigation and actions

🤖 AI-Powered Generation

• Complete App Generation - Describe your app and get a full project structure
• Smart Code Improvements - Optimize code for performance and best practices
• Model Generation - Create Prisma schemas from natural language
• Component Generation - Build complex React components with proper structure
• Theme Generation - Generate beautiful, accessible color palettes
• Test Generation - Create comprehensive E2E, unit, and integration tests
• Code Explanations - Understand any code snippet with detailed explanations
• Auto Error Repair - Detect and fix syntax, type, import, and lint errors automatically

🧪 Testing & Quality

• Playwright Designer - Visual E2E test builder with step-by-step configuration
• Storybook Designer - Component story builder with args and variations
• Unit Test Designer - Comprehensive test suite builder for components, functions, and hooks
• Error Detection - Automated scanning for syntax, type, and lint errors
• Auto Repair System - AI-powered context-aware error fixing

🚀 Getting Started

Quick Start

1. Open the Documentation tab in the app for comprehensive guides
2. Use AI Generate to scaffold a complete application from a description
3. Navigate between tabs to design models, components, themes, and backend APIs
4. Click Export Project to download your complete Next.js application

Manual Building

1. Models Tab - Create your database schema with Prisma models
2. Components Tab - Build your UI component hierarchy
3. Styling Tab - Design your theme with custom colors and typography
4. Flask API Tab - Configure your backend REST API
5. Settings Tab - Configure Next.js and npm packages
6. Code Editor Tab - Fine-tune generated code directly
7. Export - Download your complete, production-ready application

📋 Technology Stack

Frontend

• Next.js 14 with App Router
• React 18 with TypeScript
• Material UI 5
• Sass/SCSS for custom styling
• Monaco Editor
• Tailwind CSS
• Framer Motion

Backend & Testing

• Flask REST API (Python)
• Prisma ORM
• Playwright (E2E Testing)
• Vitest + React Testing Library
• Storybook for Component Development

AI Integration

• OpenAI GPT-4 for code generation
• Context-aware prompt engineering
• Intelligent error detection and repair
• Natural language to code translation

📚 Documentation

The application includes comprehensive built-in documentation:

• README - Complete feature overview and getting started guide
• Roadmap - Completed features and planned enhancements
• Agents Files - AI service architecture and integration points
• Sass Styles Guide - Custom Material UI components, utilities, mixins, and animations

Access documentation by clicking the Documentation tab in the application.

🗺️ Roadmap

✅ Completed (v1.0 - v4.1)

• Project dashboard with completion metrics
• Monaco code editor integration
• Visual designers for models, components, and themes
• AI-powered generation across all features
• Multi-theme variant support
• Testing suite designers (Playwright, Storybook, Unit Tests)
• Auto error detection and repair
• Flask backend designer
• Project settings and npm management
• Custom Sass styling system with utilities and mixins
• ZIP file export with README generation
• Keyboard shortcuts for power users

🔮 Planned

• Real-time preview with hot reload
• Database seeding designer
• API client generator
• Visual form builder
• Authentication designer (JWT, OAuth, sessions)
• Docker configuration generator
• GraphQL API designer
• State management designer (Redux, Zustand, Jotai)
• CI/CD pipeline generator
• Component library export
• Design system generator
• Collaboration features

🎨 Design Philosophy

CodeForge combines the power of visual low-code tools with professional IDE capabilities:

• Empowering - Control at both visual and code levels
• Intuitive - Complex generation made approachable
• Professional - Production-ready, best-practice code output

🤝 Contributing

CodeForge is built on the Spark platform. Contributions, feature requests, and feedback are welcome!

📄 License

The Spark Template files and resources from GitHub are licensed under the terms of the MIT license, Copyright GitHub, Inc.

🔗 Resources

• Full Documentation - Complete product requirements and design decisions
• Error Repair Guide - Error detection and repair system documentation

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